venir
Spanish, verb/beˈniɾ/
venir is a Spanish verb meaning “to come (move closer to some location (most often closer to the speaker), by default the speaker's location)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Trasladarse hacia acá”.
What does venir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to come (move closer to some location (most often closer to the speaker), by default the speaker's location)
- 2
to arrive
El tren viene a las 2.
- 3
to come from, originate
Vengo de Morelos.
- 4
to come (happen)
Lo que venga, lo acepto.
- 5
to come (appear)
Las amistades vienen y van.
- 6
to come (to have some characteristic or quality) (with an adjective or prepositional phrase)
Estas botellas de agua vienen en packs de 4 y 6.
- 7
to receive something, get something
Me vino tu paquete.
- 8
to get (something felt in one's body or perceived in one's mind, a feeling, an illness, pain, an urge, an idea, etc.)
Near-synonym: tener
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Trasladarse hacia acá. 2. Ir hacia donde está el que habla. 3. Ir de un lado hacia otro. 4. Ir una cosa a continuación de otra.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of venir
- vengo first-person present singular
- vine first-person preterite singular
- venido participle past
- e-ie-i alternation
- viniendo gerund
- venida feminine participle past
- venidos masculine participle past
- venidas feminine participle past
- vienes indicative informal present
- venís indicative informal present
- viene indicative present singular
- venimos first-person indicative plural
- vienen indicative plural present
- venía first-person imperfect indicative
- venías imperfect indicative second-person
- veníamos first-person imperfect indicative
- veníais imperfect indicative plural
- venían imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce venir?
- /beˈniɾ/
- [beˈniɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to venir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is venir in Spanish?
venir appears 66 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).